SOME FACTS ON USSR ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110001-6
CLASVF ATION COIIFIDEIITIAI
SECURITY II7CORt1.'iIOId
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
COUNTRY
USSR
3UBJECT
Economic - Electric power
HOW
PUBLISHED
Daily newspapers; month7.?T periodicals;
WHERE
PUBLISHED
USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED
Apr 1947 - Jan 1953
LANGUAGE
Russian
T II O,T?IF ,IOSNATID, AT CTI.D Tx7~- I F?TID,?L p h[1
Of THE UNITED STATES. I NIN N N[I,IND DI TITS[ S. SECTIONS 713
AND TEA. DI THE Y.I. -1. AS ?Y[ND[D. ITS TI?M WISSID, OD .[Y[?
LATION Of ITS CONTENTS TO OD -1111 M ?N AYlxOSI IID IGSON IS
[D IT A?._. TH[IOIODDCTIT, OI MIS Taw IS .IDHIIITTD.
SOURCE
According to Pravda of 1 January 1953, the Ministry of Electric Power
Stations fulfilled its 1952 plan for electric power production on 31 December
152.(1) An Elektricheskiye Stantsii article of January 1953 revealed that,
T:; planned, 117 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power were produc-d in
1952.(2)
Pravda reported on 6 October 1952 that, in view of the :sapid develop-
ment of industries in the eastern regions of the USSR, over l+0 percent of the
total output of electric power r Fs concentrated in these regions. 7"ney in-
clude the Volga Region, Urals, Siberia, the Far East, Kazakh Sall, and the re-
publics of Central Asia(3)
During 1950, according to a 1TIf,7 Stroite,'naya Promyshlenno_t' ertici,
it was planned to increase the cap city of electric power inctI ~ Llations serv-
ing construction to 700,000 kilowatts, which was to be about 3.= percent of
the total capacity of USSR electric power stations. Thee thr.t r1 cousumn-.
tion by constriction during 1950 was to be about 2 billion Fil^ ett-hnure.(+)
DATE DIST, 30 Apr 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
Elektricheskiye Stantsli in aovember ',52 revealed that t.-,C- coustruc
tion costs of electric power stations not, only did not der_r?e?isn iuring tre
first half of 1952, but in many cases incre : erl above the ci r.lrlat=. l Lmow,t.
For instance, Moaenergo exceeded the estL;.::l;e;i amount for the con,;ir'.et._T:
it carried out by c.7 percent, Glavuralen r,;c:: r^;- by ,'.5 percent, ;le:., y i?
xhenergostroy by 5.5 percent, and Glavener;;ost-cur ?^l 13?l: percent.(5)
loskovskaya Pravda stated on 3 January 1.j53 .' the extensive we
superheated steam at high pressures by TES, nd .,ro;ements achir^?:3..
In l:he i.,i.intenance of the power generating etuiFaen[.. n) ; in a savLns :
L.: .,0:1,000 tons of fuel during 1952.(6)
STATE
ARMY
NSRB
FBI
__j
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110001_69
umbers in parentheses refer to apperded source
 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110001-6
On 19 November 1952, Moskovskiy Komsomolets reported that the steam tur-
bine of 150,000-kilowatt capacity which was being manufactured in Leningrad
was to be installed within the Moscow power system; an 10-percent fuel saving
was to be effected by using the turbine, which was to operate by steam super-
heated to 550 degrees at a pressure of 170 atmospheres.(7)
According to another Elektricheskiye Stantsii article, 8 October 1952
was the 30th anniversary of the starting of the first 10,000-kilowatt-capacity,
turbogenerator, at the Utkina Zavod, now the "Krasnyy Oktyabr" Electric Power
Station in Leningrad, which burns peat in its boilers. The article stated
that the boilers of the station were replaced after World War II, with the re-
sult that fuel consumption was reduced from 0.606 kilogram in 1940 to 0.555
kilogram of standard fuel per kilowatt-hour during the first half of 1950.(5)
V. Yu. Yurenev in his Prom shlennyye Paroturbinnyye Elektricheskiyee
Stantsii observed that electric power station. with a capacity of over 25,000
kilowatts are considered stations with a large capacity, while stations with
a capacity of 25,000 kilowatts and less are considered to be of medium and
small capacity. Yurenev stated, however, that this classification is not a
permanent one sin.,e the capacities of newly built stations are on the upward
trend.(8)
An article in Mekhanizatsiya Trudoyemkikh i Tyazhelykh Rabot in November
1952 stated that production of peat by enterprises of the Ministry of Electric
Power Stations in 1951 increased 4.8 times over 1930. The article revealed
that all the electric power stations of the Kalinin, Yaroslavl', Ivanovo, Be-
lorussian, Lithuanian, Kirov, and Bryansk regional power systems burn peat in
their boilers. It stated that the majority of electric power stations in
some other oblasts, including Gor'kovskaya, Leningradskaya, Sverdlovskaya,
and a part of Moskovskaya, also burn peat.(9)
M. Rauzen and V. Samsonov, in Propaganda Velikikh Stroyek Kommunizma v
Klube, reported that 17,000 kilowatt-hours of power were required to produce
one ton of caoutchouc 25,000 kilowatt-hours to produce one ton of aluminum,
50,000 kilowatt-hours to produce one ton of magnesium, 1,500 to 1,800 kilo-
watt-hours to produce a passenger car, and 150,000 kilowatt-hours to produce
a four-engine airplane.(10)
Za Ekonomiyu Materialov in September 1952 reported that in 1946 the
Ural plants of the Ministry of Ferrous Metals used 935 kilowatt-hours of
power to produce one ton of electrosteel but that in 1950 they had reduced
this consumption to 834 kilowatt-hours. To produce one ton of ferrosilicon,
the Chelyabinsk Plant usel 9,134 kilowatt-hours in 1946 but only 8,611 kilo-
watt-hours in 1950. The Ferroalloy Plant used 9,271 kilowatt-hours in 1946
but only 8,571 kilowatt-hours in 1550 for the same purpose.(11)
1. Moscow, Pravda, 1 Jan 53
2. Moscow, Elektricheskiye Stantsii, No 1, Jan 53
3. Pravda, 6 Oct 52
4. Moscow, Stroitel'naya Promyshlennost', No 4, Apr 47
5. Elektricleskiye Stantsii, No 11, Nov 52
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/08 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110001-6
 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110001-6
6. Moskovskaya Pravda, 3 Jan 53
7. Moskovskiy Komsomoleta, 19 Nov 52
8. V. Yu. Yurenev, Promyshlennyye Paroturbinnyye E1e;:tricheskiye
Stantsii, Moscow, 1952
9. Moscow, Mekhanizatsiya Trudc.yemkikh i Tyazhelykh Ranot, No 11,
Nov 52
10. M. Rauzen and V. Samsonov, Propaganda Velikikh Stroyek Kom-
munizma v IQube, Moscow, 1952
11. Moscow, Za Ekonomiyu Materialov, No 2, Sep 52
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110001-6